Research Staff

Musicology

Barbara L. Kelly is Professor of Music and Director of Research at the Royal Northern College of Music. Her research is focused on French music between 1870 and 1939. She has published two monographs: Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939 (Boydell, 2014) and Tradition and Style in the Works of Darius Milhaud, 1912-1939 (Ashgate, 2003) and two edited collections. She is currently preparing an edited collection with Christopher Moore: Authority, Advocacy, Legacy: Music Criticism in France (1918-1939), and is working on a study of concert societies devoted to new music in France; she is also preparing a study of the singer, Jane Bathori’s war-time concerts at the Vieux Colombier.

She welcomes applications for PhD study in the following or related areas: French music from 1870-1945; Stravinsky and contemporaries in Paris; Anglo-French concert life (1900-1939); music, war and peace during and after the First World War, and on questions of nationalism, internationalism and identity in late 19th and 20th-century European music.

Music Psychology

Professor Jane Ginsborg read music at the University of York, and trained as a singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has published widely on expert musicians’ approaches to practising and memorizing, and won the British Voice Association’s Van Lawrence Award in 2002 for her research on singers’ memorizing strategies. She is Chair of the Conservatoires UK (CUK) Research Ethics Committee and was elected President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) in 2012.

Composition

Professor Adam Gorb studied music at Cambridge University and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he graduated with the highest honours including the Principal’s Prize. His compositions include orchestral, ensemble, chamber, solo and choral works, and have been performed, broadcast and recorded world-wide. His works have been featured in new music feativals festivals in Huddersfield, Cheltenham, Spitalfields and Canterbury, and he has been a featured composer at Luton and Bromsgrove music clubs. He has had concerts devoted to his music in the UK, the USA and Canada.

Music education and pedagogy

Dr John Habron – Music and movement in educational / therapeutic contexts; Dalcroze Eurhythmics (theory, practice, history) and related reform pedagogy movements; musical creativities; music and spirituality; the history of music therapy; music in the medical humanities; music and dementia; and whole-person approaches to care within the field of music, health and wellbeing.

Musicology

Dr Cheryll Duncan – Professional music culture in London during the long eighteenth century; impresarios and singers; music publishing; iconography; newspapers; archival studies, especially legal documents.

Dr David Jones – French music 1800 to the present; later 20th century British composers

Professor Barbara Kelly – French music from 1870-1945; Stravinsky and contemporaries in Paris; Anglo-French concert life (1900-1939); music, war and peace during and after the First World War, and on questions of nationalism, internationalism and identity in late 19th and 20th century European music

Emily Kilpatrick – French music 1870-c1930, with special focus on Ravel and Fauré; art song, particularly the French mélodie, and the intersection of poetry and music; performance practice; critical editing; practice-led research.

Melinda Maxwell – Oboist, composer. Research project with composer David Horne exploring the boundaries between improvisation and the written score